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Projects for new developers

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Latest news: Moodle will be taking part in the Google Summer of Code for our fifth year in 2011!


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This evolving page lists possible Moodle projects for new developers derived from community suggestions.

If you have any ideas for new features in Moodle which might be suitable as projects for new developers, please see Development:New feature ideas.


SCORM Test Harness

Write a Test harness to automatically run the SCORM ADL tests on the latest Moodle code.

Skills required: PHP, Javascript
Difficulty level: Medium
Mentor: Dan Marsden

For further details see:

Workflow support in the Database activity module

Add the ability to control the state of a database record, permissions at different state levels and email notifications.

Skills required: PHP and understanding UML syntax of state diagrams, workflow principles
Difficulty level: Medium
Mentors: David Mudrák

For further details see:

Improved spam detector

Improve Moodle's current Spam cleaner tool.

Skills required: PHP
Difficulty level: Medium
Mentors: To be confirmed

For further details see:

XML admin settings presets

Create an interface for allowing administrators to export settings in an XML file for restoring to another Moodle site.

Skills required: PHP
Difficulty level: Medium
Mentors: Penny Leach, Dan Poltawski

For further details see:

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